Saturday, 04 September 2010 01:08

QPMPA Press Release — 4 September 2010

Bureaucratic Terrorism on Hospitals —

Hospitals raided & Drug Stores penalised

The Health Department wants to take the Healthcare Industry back to the STONE AGE!

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Qualified Private Medical Practitioners' Association, is an organisation of Modern Medicine Doctors & Hospitals in the private sector

The QPMPA was started in June 1973 to protect the interests of the ill-organised public willing to pay for their treatment. Ever since its inception, the QPMPA is fighting against all invisible cost escalation in health care delivery in the private sector. The QPMPA is also engaged in  abolishing quackery in medical practise flourishing all over the  country with the blessings of the powers that be.

Sunday, 29 August 2010 17:14

Bureaucratic Terrorism — Drug Stores penalised

Go to http://cdsco.nic.in/ for a copy of Drugs & Cosmetic Act.pdf corrected up to 2005

The Health Department wants to take the Healthcare Industry back to the STONE AGE!

Doctors and their hospitals are not drug sellers and we are not ready to have a Pharmacist to supervise our profession!

Sad to note that there are spineless ones in the profession, like in all professions, who are ready to swallow everything lying down. We can only sympathise with those selfish colleagues who doesn't know the rights they have in the society and they can be ignored!

Sad to note that thousands of Drugs stores in Kerala are penalised and terrorised by the Licencing Authority (Drugs Control Department) for selling drugs as directed by the department.

Wednesday, 25 August 2010 16:11

Does the proposed Clinical Establishment Bill / Act, 2010, violate the fundamental rights of doctors?

http://www.mumbai-central.com/nukkad/jun2010/msg00133.html

QUESTION:- Are there sufficient legal grounds for doctors to oppose the Clinical Establishment Bill / Act, 2010?

ANSWER:- The Bill has already been passed by the Lok Sabha. It may be passed by the Rajya Sabha soon. Doctors need to move the courts to protect their fundamental rights which are sought to be infringed by the proposed Bill. It is true that if the courts are petitioned against violation of fundamental rights even after the legislation has come into force, the same can still be struck down. However, it is better to nip the evil in the bud.

Once it becomes a law, the courts, even if they admit the writ petition against it, may not grant stay against its operation and it may continue to be in force while the litigation is pending. The real danger is that if doctors are not concerned now, when the attack is being openly planned against them, they are unlikely to protest when the attack is actually made. As a result, what is likely is that they will be further emasculated and will wail and whine and cry even more, with no effect.